Tate St Ives

Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, UK. It does not have a permanent collection, instead, it celebrates the best of international modern and contemporary art with 3 seasons of exhibitions a year.

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Collection details

Decorative and Applied Art, Film and Media, Fine Art

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Exhibition (temporary)

ARTIST ROOMS: Dan Flavin – Tate St Ives

23 May — 27 September 2015 *on now

For summer 2015 Tate St Ives will continue its biennial series of one-room displays by a mix of contemporary and historic artists.

Part of this will include an ARTIST ROOMS display of the work of Dan Flavin. Summer 2015 will feature artists who respond to the architecture of Tate St Ives, as well as to the histories, geography and location of St Ives and will address a number of inter-related themes around materiality and minimalism, and colour and bodies in space.

Terry Frost and Jessica Warboys

Although conceived as distinct solo shows, the exhibitions consider the two artists’ shared use of symbolism, vocabulary of forms, and playful approach to landscape and experience.

Sir Terry Frost was committed to the principles of abstraction from the early 1950s, and for over fifty years evolved a personal language imbued with the sensational experience of being in the world. This exhibition explores his essential ideas around space and form through themes of performance, construction and play.

Jessica Warboys’s practice employs a variety of media, ranging from sculpture, film, and performance to large format canvases including sea paintings. Her work often departs from personal or collective memories, be it historical, mythical or fictional.

Admission

Website

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Seasonal event

Images Moving Out Onto Space

23 May — 27 September 2015 *on now

What happens when art works are set in motion? When they move around the gallery or out into the world? Images Moving Out Onto Spaceis an exhibition that asks these questions. The galleries are animated by light, colour and movement, and are full of bodies in all kinds of different states: flattened and fragmented, illuminated andreflected. The exhibition brings together eight artists, with works spanning fifty years. The title and inspiration forImages Moving Out Onto Spaceis borrowed from a series of psychedelic kinetic sculptures that Cornwall-based artistBryan Wynterbegan to make in the 1960s. The exhibition uses this series, Wynter's 'IMOOS', to think about how abstraction can moveus. Images Moving Out Onto Spaceresonates with different modernist practices from minimalism to kinetic art, to OpArt.

Suitable for

Any age

Admission

£7, concessions available

Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.

The Zoom Room

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Telephone

01736 796226

Fax

01736 794480

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Screened live on YouTube, pioneering performance artist Joan Jonas will instruct a group of protégés to draw, fold, make masks and follow the commands of a recorded poem in the latest instalment of the gallery's Performance Room series.